Wind and water excluder



Feb. 17, 1925.

1,526,693 w. BROWNLIE WIND AND WATER EXCLUDER Filed Feb. 11, 1924 Patented Feb. 17, 1925. i i I 1,526,693

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM BROWNLIE, O'F LONG ISLAND CITY, NEW YORK.

WIND AND WATER EXCLUDER.

Application filed February 11, 1924. Serial No. 692,046.

To all whom it may concern: nates above the lower edge of the closure and Be it known that I, VVI'LLIAM BRowNLIn, the sealing plate 16 fills the space between a citizen ofGre-at Britain, residing at Long the molding and said closure bottom. Island City, in the county of Queens and f This sealing plate 16 is made wedge- 5 State of New York, have invented a new shaped in cross section with the thicker por and useful lVind and ater Excluder, of tion 17 thereof located in the recess 14 of W which the following is a specification. 1 the molding, the thin front edge project- This invention relates to weather strips ing beyond the molding and beveled as for doors and windows. shown at 18 to fit fiat against the door sill The object of the invention is to provide when the closure is closed as shown in a device of this character carried by a Fig. 2. o5 closuresuch as'a door or window which is This plate 16 is pivotally mounted on so constructed as to normally tilt into inbrackets as 19 any desired number of which operative position on the opening of the may be employed according to the size of closure and to be forced into sealing pothe closure and the plate 16 to be supported iti h th closure i l d, 1" thereby. Each of these brackets 19 is With the foregoing and other objects in 1 L-shaped in form with the long arm 20 view which will appear as the description thereof arranged flat against the front face proceeds, the invention resides in the comof the closure 15 between it and the molding Z0 bination and arrangement of parts and in 10 and which is secured in place by a screw the details of construction hereinafter de- 21 extending through the molding and the scribed and claimed, it being understood bracket and entering the closure, the head that changes in the precise embodiment of ofthe screw being preferably countersunk. the invention herein disclosed, may be nfade The short arm22 of the bracket extends for within the scope of what is claimed without wardly below the molding 10 and has its departing from the spirit of the invention. terminal 23 bent upwardly and outwardly In the accompanying drawings to form a pintle for plate 16. Figure 1 represents a front elevation of The plate 16 being mounted as above dethe lower portion of a door and its frame scribed with its thickened heavier portion with this improved device shown applied housed Within the recess 14 of the molding d i Operative iti and will normally swing with its front edge into 35 F1g. 2 is a transverse section taken on the raised OIDOPGIIPOSIIJIOD, said swinging moveline 22 of Fig. 1. ment being controlled by the engagement In the embodiment illustrated a door sill of the rear edge of the plate with the arms 35 1 is shown from the ends of which rise the 20 of the brackets.

door frame 2 having stiles 3 secured to the It will thus be seen that when the closure inner faces thereof, said stiles being cut is swung outwardly into open position the away at their outer rear corners as shown sealing plate 16 will automatically raise to at a to receive a molding 10 carried by the clear the sill. When the door is closed the 40 closure 15 which may be either a door or a lower or front edge of plate 16 will ride up window. over the rounded bar 13 and on entering the Secured to the lower end of the inner recess 1 in the stile will be engaged by the face of one of the stiles 8 is a striking post beveled end of the striking post 11 which will 11 the lower end of which is beveled as force said plate downwardly into tight closed 45 shown at 12 for a purpose to be described. position and hold it in this position prevent- A metal strip or bar 13 is secured to the ing all possibility of water or air entering sill 1 midway the width thereof and is prefunder it. erably semi-circular" in cross section as A closure equipped with this improved shown clearly in Fig. 2. weather strip will effectively shut out air 50 I The molding 10 carried by the closure 15 and'water and the strip will last indefinitely inclines downwardly and forwardly andhas owing to the fact that the sealing member its inner face at its lower portion recessed and the striking post which receive the as shown at 1 1 to form a housing for the greater portion of the wear are made of sealing member 16. This molding termimetal.

I claim 1. The combination with a closure; of a molding-mounted. on the outer face rof the closure near one edge thereof. with its lower:

edge inclined outwardly, L-shaped metal edge nclined outwardly and provided on brackets having one arm mounted between said molding and said closure and attached by screws passing through the molding, saidarms and into the closure, the other arm of the bracket extending;laterally outward,; a metal plate arranged under this molding, said plate being wedge-shaped-incross sec-,- tion'and' its thin lower e'dgelbeveledto fit: snugly against the frame of. the closure, said plate being apertured midway its width and pivotally mountedon saidbracket ends,-the thick portion of the plate being adapted to causev the plate to swing downwardlyat; said weighted end and raise its lower end, and-a metal striking post having a; beveled, end" locatedin .thepa'th of said plate to:force.it downward into closed position on the 010s ing of the closure.

2. The combination with a closure; L. shaped brackets secured to the outer face of said closure near oneedge thereof and hav ing one arm projecting laterally out-ward,

said arm having upturned obliquely disposedf terminals to form pivots, a flat metal; sealing"v plate wedge-shaped in-cross section' piv'ot'r ally. mounted intermediate its width on said obliquely disposed. bracketends, with the weighted edgeof said plate disposed upwardly whereby the lower: edge isnormally swung upwardly and outwardly, and a metal striking post. having a beveled lower edge located in the path-of saidpla-te 1 to force it into closed position on the closing of the closure.

3, ,The combination with a closure; of a molding mounted on theouter face of the closure near one edge thereof with its lower its inner face adjacent said edge with a re cess, .shaped metal brackets having one arm mounted between said molding and said closure and attached by screws passing through the molding, said arm and into the closure, the other .arm of the brackets ex tending laterally outward and having up- Zturned obliquely disposed terminals to form pivots, a metal plate arranged under said molding said plate being wedge-shaped in cross section and its thin lower edge beveled 1 to fit snugly against the frame of the closure, saidplate being apertured midway its width and pivotally mounted onsaid obliquely dispo'sedbracketends, the thick portion of the plate=being movable-into said recess in the closed position of the closure and adapted to cause said end of the plate to swing down- :wardlywand' raise the thin edge when the closure is in open position, and a metal striking post having a beveled lower end located in'the path of said plate to force the thin' edge downward into closed position on the closing of the closure.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto afixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM; BROVVNLIE. Witnesses:

BE NARD-A. KLEIN,- ROBERT BRowNLIn. 

